Let's Talk Labor In Seminole Heights

With 2 of Tampa Bay's top labor activists

Kelly Benjamin 

and Marc Rodrigues

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Stephanie Baxter-Jenkins the Executive Director for the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association, Mike Ruso Adjunct Professor of English at the University of South Florida and Bradley Van Waus will also be there.

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Guest speakers 2018 candidates 

Sky U. White and Andrew Learned

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8.31 - 7 PM

Seminole Heights Library

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What do the 40-hour workweek, overtime pay, and child labor laws all have in common? They are all results of our wonderful labor unions in this country. This meeting focuses on labor activists in Tampa Bay. Come learn more about the organized labor movement and how you can get involved in their struggle for human dignity.

Why Florida Democrats Will Lose The Governorship In 2018

Florida Democrats, losers in the state for years will probably nominate Gwen Graham as their candidate for governor. She calls herself an environmentalist, she has criticize the Scott administration she says has battered Florida’s environment.  

“Too much of Florida’s beauty is being lost to development and neglect,” she said in the May 2 speech formally rolling out her campaign. Yet one month before the speech she took $50,000 from James Finch, a Panama City developer who in the past has been hit with large fines from environmental regulators.

Finch has also given $65,000 to the Republican Party of Florida since 2004. At the federal level, Finch has given tens of thousands of dollars, mostly to Republicans.

He praise Graham’s time in Congress, specifically when she voted in 2015 to support of the Keystone XL pipeline, which was championed by the oil and gas industry and decried by environmentalists.

 Another centrist Dem. another loss. 
Alex Sink, Charlie Crist?
here

Hillsborough County Demand Transit Now

This is one of the only opportunities to share our thoughts on the county budget. Please join us and share this if you agree Tampa, Brandon, Temple Terrace and all of Hillsborough County deserve better transit now. here

Toss Dennis Ross in 2018

here

The Democratic Progressive Caucus of Tampa Bay August Monthly Meeting

8.31 - 7 PM

Seminole Heights Library

info

Democrat Kathy Castor Votes Yes On Bill Allowing Warrantless Searches of Homes

In the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia. here

Democrat Steny H. Hoyer Sponsored it.

Other Florida yeas Bilirakis, Buchanan, Curbelo, Deutch,

Diaz-Balart, Frankel, Gaetz, Hastings, Lawson,

Murphy, Ros-Lehtinen, Ross, Rutherford, 
Wasserman Schultz, Wilson and Yoho

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Only 5 Opposed It. None from Florida

DeSantis, Rooney and Webster did not vote.

Even Pelosi voted for it.

 Please tell us the difference in parties again. 

Ybor Graffiti

7th Ave

Florida Homeless Bill of Rights Campaign

The Florida Homeless Bill of Rights Campaign page exists to promote a statewide, grassroots movement to decriminalize homelessness, to protect life-sustaining activities which unhoused persons must perform in public, and to demand fundamental rights to housing, income and healthcare. The campaign is a project of Florida Homelessness Action Coalition (FLHAC), which is comprised of homeless advocates from across the state. here

Kevin Rouse For North Port

"North Port citizens will not be denied Medical Cannabis. While other cities continue their oppressive ways The City of North Port chooses to represent the will of the people, as Government was always meant to do."

Kevin Rouse

Florida Racist Woman Gets Her Ass Kicked

here

A History Of The Cuban Club And Ybor

What Pilar Had For Lunch

Pizza and Pepsi

At Mama Rosa's Pizza in Ybor

4 Florida Villages Say No To Marijuana Dispensaries

Last November, 72 percent of Florida voters — an overwhelming majority supported medical marijuana. Now 4 Florida wannabe cities could care less what voters want.  Elected officials are essentially telling people your vote means absolutely nothing. The wanna-be cities are: 

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Lauderdale-by-the-Sea 

Royal Palm Beach

 Southwest Ranches 

Sea Ranch Lakes

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Boca Raton and Coral Springs are considering a ban. 

here

Flipping The Hillsborough County Commission

I first met Julio the creator of this blog a couple of years ago as we were both waiting for the library downtown to open. He had just been to an event at Gaslight Park and wanted to post his Images. I was there for research on a book I have been working on. He offered me a guest blogger spot on his blog. I have to admit I have been slacking. He is going through a hard time right now and I want to help him. The following is something we have talked about many times. He never wanted to post this because he didn't want to call anyone/group
(Sunshine Citizens) out. But I will.  

The case off Jeffrey Zampitella

I just came across a new site www.flipthecommission.com 

Last year we had a chance to take out Sandy Murman. (We had a great candidate) The effort by the grassroots just wasn't there. 

Doing early voting up to election day Julio spent every day at the Jan Platt Library waving a Pat Kemp sign. Not once did anybody come and hold Jeff's signs. No one even came to put any up. The only sign there was the one Julio brought. 

Murman had people there that she was paying to hold her signs. (Notice how the GOP sticks together) 

Pat Kemp's people were everywhere

So you can put up all the fancy websites and Facebook pages you want but if the effort is not there on the ground it is all for not.

Tampa Bay Times: Right Wing Propaganda?

The once proud Liberal Tampa Bay Times has taken a turn for the worse. Their effort to woo subscribers from the radical right has destroyed what little remains of its credibility.

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 The infusion of $15 million by local investors into the economically flailing newspaper. Every one of the benefactors that have been identified–Frank Morsani, Richard Rothman, and Jeff Vinik have donated gobs of dough to Republicans including Trump, Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, Rick Scott, Paul Ryan, and Jeb Bush. Now they are backing  Rick Baker, (an unrepentant Donald Trump supporter) that if elected could embolden extremists and their racist followers to transform a tranquil, diverse, progressive St. Petersburg into a literal and ideological battleground.

here

What Pilar Had For Lunch

Prime Rib

With Rice

At Carne Chophouse in Ybor